The lie often spoken

“Law will take its own course”.  I don’t know who first used this coinage, but often politicians, bureaucrats and diplomats are found to take hide behind these words to shake off their responsibility of an incident the impact of which does not favour them . Does law really take its own course?

Just consider the symbol of law, a blind-folded lady holding a weighing scale in her hand. Yes, blind-folded. Law is impartial is the significance, but simultaneously it also signifies that law itself cannot see anything. It sees through the eyes of others and here lies the lacuna; neither the eyes through which law sees are always impartial nor all the eyes are equally efficient.

As per Oxford dictionary Law is ‘the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties’. The system of rules is run by few agencies, the police, the judiciary etc. Law itself does not take its course rather law has been channelized to the course it takes by the law enforcing agencies depending on the social, economical and political perspectives.